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...months in the nation's newsrooms - there was nothing to hold us back, so we stampeded down to Miami with our microphones amped and our camera lights blazing. Six months later, according to the media mavens at Newswatch.org, Elian has become the most covered media object since O. J. Simpson, surpassing JFK Jr. and even Diana in network stories. Various networks and CNN have cut a deal with the Miami relatives allowing cameras into the house, should INS officials or federal marshals finally make a move to retrieve Elian. The New York Times reports that CBS is hard at work...
...Simpson said she had never planned to be a leader at the beginning of her career, but that the sexual and racial discrimination she encountered as an up-and-coming reporter forced her to take a vocal stance against injustice...
...Things just happened, and they made me angry, I had to do something," Simpson said...
...Simpson encouraged audience members to set high goals for themselves and said she herself was eyeing the top position...
...panel along with Mineta, a former member of Congress, were L. Ling-Chi Wang, chair of the ethnic studies department at the University of California, Berkeley, and Alan K. Simpson, director of the Institute of Politics and a longtime friend of Mineta...